Analyzing players games by request. GAME #2

Recommended.

I would highly recommend that you have the game open on either another tab or moniter.
This way you can follow along with the moves better, and analyze some yourself.
Or you could just grab the closest board that is embedded in this and make the moves as I go through them.

The opening.

White started the game with the classic e4, and black responded with e5.
Then white played nf3. Beginning to develop his pieces.

Then black played queen to f6.
Which is an inaccuracy.
Bringing your queen out this early in the game, and not really for a purpose isn't a good idea.
He could've developed a piece that would have been more useful at this stage of the game, and not be endangering his queen.
The next few moves are basic development so please now go five moves ahead. Stopping at knight to c3.

Here black decided to make the move pawn to c6.
I wanted to point out that black here is going for more control in the center.
He's preparing for maybe some pawn trades in the center.
Rather than moving his knight there which would be controlling center squares, but wouldn't help in a pawn trade.

Then white played d3. Opening his dark square bishop to a diagonal of possibilities.
Black then played h6. Preventing whites dark square bishop from threatening his queen, and being able to trade bishops.
White then develops his dark square bishop to e3. This way he is controlling a square in the center, opening his back rank for his rooks, and preparing for any trades in the center. With all that we ended up here:

Here black plays queen to g6.
Which the computer says is an inaccuracy.
I guess he was preparing for using his bishop to completely utilize the pin of the pawn to the king.
Then white played his g-pawn to g3. Preventing the bishop from attacking it.
This though is a mistake. It allows blacks light square bishop to claim territory around his castled king.
The better move would be to continue in his advancements on the center by playing d4.
But alas he did not.

Then black played knight to f6.
Which is an INACCURACY!!
He missed his opportunity for his bishop to invade the white kings space.
Then white played rook to e1. Preparing for when the e-file opens up.
There is obviously going to be some big trades in the center, and both sides want to be prepared.
Black then castled.

Then white MAKES A BLUNDER!!!
Yes a blunder.
White plays the move queen to d2.
He misses the opportunity to move knight to h4, and start kicking his opponents queen around.
If he played that blacks queen would have to either go to h7 to retreat, g4 to offer a trade, or h5 doing the same.
White either would have pushed the queen back or made trades that would improve his position.
Either way would have been profitable to him.
But he didn't so lets get back to the real position which with that move ushered in the middlegame.

Middlegame.

Black then playes d5 which is a big mistake.
It allows white to capture his e-pawn with his knight, and threaten his queen.
Or he could take his d-pawn.
Either way he would end up with a lot more control of the center.
White chose to take the d-pawn with his pawn.
Then black took it back.

WHICH IS A BLUNDERRR!!!
It allows white to win an entire pawn.
The computer prefered queen to h5.
Which would end up with a few trade, and eventually make some interesting positions.
But he didn't so the real position is this.

Then white responded wi-NO. Yes It's true.
A BLUNDERRRR!!!
He took blacks e-pawn with his knight?
Which allows blacks queen to go to f5 threatening his knight.
And the top lines indicate that It could end up in a very interesting position like this.

If you notice this position ends up where whites queen needs to be as useful as a rook, and two minor pieces.
Which makes for a very interesting game.
But instead of it ending up like that white made a mistake and took the d-pawn with his knight.

The better move would be to take with his bishop, and it would end up in the position that I had mentioned earlier.
The one where white has a queen to a rook and two minor pieces.
Then black responds with ANOTHER BLUNDERRR!!
Yes. Again.
He took the knight on e5 with his queen.
Which allows white to take his h6 pawn with his bishop.
With this he opens up his opponents kingside, and would end up in a position where he was totally winning.
But then white blunders by taking blacks bishop on e7.
He missed his opportunity to exploit the black kings defense.

Black naturally captured back with his queen.
And white then played his rook on the a-file to d1.
This move isn't the best. That rook doesn't do anything at the moment.
It would have been better to move a piece that is already active in the game, or make another piece active.
The computer preferred taking the h-pawn now trying to attack the kings defenses.
But he didn't and black right now is winning by a mile.

Now on this board please go six moves ahead stopping at pawn to b3. Because nothing really happens other than white kicking blacks queen around.

Here black played the move knight to c6. Which is an inaccuracy.
He should have played the move bishop to g4.
This move would force white to either defend his rook with his bishop or move his rook.
And this move would allow blacks bishop to enter into whites territory, and allow his a-file rook to come into the game.
But he didn't so white responded with moving his bishop to e5. Wanting to take the knight and open up blacks king.

And here black makes a BLUNDERRR!!
He moves his knight to b4.
This move makes his knight dependent upon his queen.
Because the white queen is attacking it if he moves his queen white will be able to take it.
Because of this blunder whites bishop can take the knight on f6, and black will lose a piece because to take the bishop would be a blunderr.
It would allow whites queen to take the pawn on h6, and control the territory around blacks king.
So this blunder is huge one for black.
And after that white did respond with taking the knight on f6 with his bishop.

And black responded with the blunder we discussed earlier, and took with his g-pawn.
White then took his h-pawn with his queen.
White is now winning. Unless white just plays really stupid moves this is won.

Black then responded with a BLUNDERR!!
Again. Are you kidding me.
He played knight takes c2.
Which then makes it where white has checkmate in a few moves.

White then took the pawn on f7 with his bishop.

Black took the bishop with his king.

And then white made a beautiful checkmate with the move queen to h7.

Wrap-up

So, this was a really interesting game.
It wasn't played perfectly, but in the end it had a beautiful checkmate.
Congratulations to hhhhhaaannni for the victory.
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I hope you enjoyed this dive into the mind of a chess player, and I'll see ya next time.